Name: Terminator 2025: Is It Ever Right To Allow Machines To Kill Autonomously?
Start: 2025-06-22T13:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-22T15:00:00-0400

Sunday June 22, 2025 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 3 (Workshop Track)

Terminator 2025: Is It Ever Right To Allow Machines To Kill Autonomously? Panelists develop a practical definition of AI: Expert Systems versus Synthetic Sentience. Panelists and audience discuss Advances In Autonomous Effectors, and build a table of permissible/impermissible autonomous actions indexed by urgency/expediency. MILSF Workshop. Gerald Hall moderates.

Moderators

Gerald Hall

Gerald Hall has had an extraordinarily diverse background. A lifelong science fiction fan, Gerald is a graduate of the N.C. State University's School of Engineering. After graduation, he served in uniform as part of the Intelligence Community for more than thirty years, deploying... Read More →

Guests

Mike Massa

LC37 Master of Ceremonies

Mike Massa has lived an adventurous life, including stints as a sailor, a banker, and a tech-head. He's lived outside the US for several years, beyond the usual military deployments. Mike writes novels and shorts in MilSF, SF, Fantasy, Horror, and non-fiction.A lover of Liberty Con... Read More →

Craig Stanfill

Craig W. Stanfill obtained his PhD in artificial intelligence in 1983, and has spent his career doing ground-breaking research in AI and enterprise computing. He has written numerous scientific papers, co-founded a software company, and been awarded more than 80 patents. He continues... Read More →

Kal Spriggs

Kal Spriggs is a US Army combat veteran, gamer, and science fiction and fantasy author. He has visited over 35 countries and has worked in a variety of industries including environmental remediation, farming, civil engineering, the military, and transportation. Kal has drawn upon... Read More →

James P. Nettles

With a 30-plus-year career in consulting, Nettles has advised a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 100 companies in financial technologies, media, entertainment, and green technologies. His work focuses on privacy, futurism, and disruptive technologies, exploring how... Read More →

Brian Urbanek

Brian has been making games since the mid 90s, and still hasn't learned his lesson. He works primarily in online video games, and specializes in economies, systems work, and social mechanics. Some of his highest profile recent titles are XCom 2 and the last eight years of Call of... Read More →

Sunday June 22, 2025 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 3 (Workshop Track) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Art/Workshops, Workshop

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